Colm Tóibín, author of “Brooklyn” and “The Empty Family” first encountered “The Children’s Grandmother,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, in an old collection of New Yorker short stories that he bought at a ...

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right. By Lauren Christensen Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Now a suburban married mother, Eilis ...

Through a series of accessible essays, lectures, and reviews that rove from Jane Austen to Brian Moore—many of which appeared in either the London or New York Review of Books— Tóibín explores the ...

Boxer Katie Taylor was among several people awarded honorary degrees by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on Friday in recognition ...

Colm Toibin, the great Irish poet and novelist, joins us now. So let's not fritter away any more time before he reads a poem. Colm, could you please read "Prayer To St. Agnes"? COLM TOIBIN: (Reading) ...

Authors and good friends Zadie Smith and Colm Tóibín join Harriett Gilbert to share books they love. For a longer edition of this episode, check out the A Good Read podcast. Colm Tóibín chooses ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

Colm Toibin considers the life and achievement of German novelist Thomas Mann in his latest book "The Magician". Nobel Prize winner and author of several of the most celebrated novels of the 20th ...

In his 2007 collection, “Mothers and Sons,” Irish writer Colm Tóibín (“The Master,” “The Blackwater Lightship”) showed himself to be an emerging master of the short-story form. In his new gathering of ...

Multi-award winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín spoke to Máiría Cahill about a united Ireland, the rise of racism and the ...

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.